Several notable people have recently joined our forum, sometimes in shadow mode. Some have not yet contributed, but I wanted to acknowledge their presence. We can expect some of them to start poking around.

@sygarte is a biologist and has the distinction of being among the first scientist publicly endorse my work on genealogical ancestry (see The Tripwire in April 2017) next week.

@CPArand is a theologian good friend of mine at Concordia Seminary, the flagship seminary of @J.E.S and @JustAnotherLutheran’s denomination. He has been working out a soon to be published “Lutheran Option” in the Origins debate. I’m often caught wondering with him: What Exactly Am I?

There are many other people of note who have become regular participants here. Don’t be offended if I have not introduced you yet, its because your reputation precedes you here. Just join me in welcoming all these new scholars here.

In preparation for our upcoming conversations, also, consider buying and reading @AndyWalsh’s and @Cootsona’s books. We will be initiating a thread for each of them in the coming months, to discuss their work in more detail.

@Patrick, feel free to invite some atheists scholars here too, or anyone else who might be fun to join the conversation. Perhaps you can convince the Pastafarian of the Church of the Great Spaghetti Monster for a Q&A session. That would be fun.

While reviving this thread I will pause to say that I’m quite amazed that so many scholars have time to post as often as they do. (In my prime years there was no way I could have been so engaged in this kind of forum. Perhaps the technology explosion has helped the younger people to multi-task more efficiently.)